The immune-related adverse events paradox in locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer after atezolizumab immunotherapy: analysis of individual patient data from IMvigor210 and IMvigor211 trials.

autoimmune adverse events immunotherapy metastatic disease systemic corticosteroids urothelial cancer

Journal

BJU international
ISSN: 1464-410X
Titre abrégé: BJU Int
Pays: England
ID NLM: 100886721

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
09 Jul 2023
Historique:
pubmed: 9 7 2023
medline: 9 7 2023
entrez: 9 7 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

To investigate the association between immune-related adverse events (irAEs) and oncological outcomes in patients with advanced urothelial cancer receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), and whether the administration of systemic corticosteroids diminishes therapeutic impact. The association between irAEs occurrence and clinical progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and cancer-specific survival (CSS) was tested by means of multivariable Cox or competing-risks regression, when appropriate. Patients experiencing irAEs were further stratified based on systemic corticosteroids administration. A sensitivity analysis was conducted by repeating all the analyses with median time to irAE as landmark point. We relied on individual participant data from two prospective trials for advanced urothelial cancer: IMvigor210 and IMvigor211. A total of 896 patients who received atezolizumab for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer were considered. Overall, irAEs were recorded in 195 patients and the median time to irAEs was 64 days. On multivariable analysis, irAEs were inversely associated with the risk of disease progression (hazard ratio [HR] 0.50, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.40-0.61; P < 0.001), overall mortality (HR 0.51, 95% CI 0.41-0.64; P < 0.001), and cancer-specific mortality (subdistributional HR [sHR] 0.55, 95% CI 0.45-0.72; P < 0.001). Moreover, our results did not refute the supposition that the administration of systemic corticosteroids does not impact oncological outcomes (PFS: HR 0.92, 95% CI 0.62-1.34, P = 0.629; OS: HR 0.86, 95% CI 0.51-1.64, P = 0.613; CSS: sHR 0.90, 95% CI 0.60-1.36, P = 0.630). The sensitivity analysis confirmed our findings. The development of irAEs while receiving atezolizumab treatment was associated with improved oncological outcomes, namely overall and cancer-specific mortality, and PFS. These findings seem to not be substantially affected by administration of systemic corticosteroids.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37422731
doi: 10.1111/bju.16121
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Subventions

Organisme : Advanced Discovery Award by the Kidney Cancer Association
Organisme : MD Anderson Khalifa Scholar Award, the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Fellowship, a Translational Research Partnership Award (KC200096P1)
Organisme : MD Anderson Physician-Scientist Award
Organisme : Translational Research Award by the V Foundation

Informations de copyright

© 2023 BJU International.

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Auteurs

Daniele Robesti (D)

Department of Urology, Division of Experimental Oncology, URI - Urological Research Institute, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Luigi Nocera (L)

Department of Urology, Division of Experimental Oncology, URI - Urological Research Institute, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Federico Belladelli (F)

Department of Urology, Division of Experimental Oncology, URI - Urological Research Institute, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Julianne G Schultz (JG)

National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Giuseppe Fallara (G)

Department of Urology, Division of Experimental Oncology, URI - Urological Research Institute, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Laura Marandino (L)

Department of Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Daniele Raggi (D)

Department of Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Francesco Montorsi (F)

Department of Urology, Division of Experimental Oncology, URI - Urological Research Institute, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Pavlos Msaouel (P)

Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Andrea Necchi (A)

Department of Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Alberto Martini (A)

Department of Urology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

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